Events Calendar

Explore family friendly events, theatres, galleries, concerts, nightlife, things to do, and more in the Greenville, SC and Upstate areas.

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Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Summer: The Donna Summer Musical
May 20 @ 7:30 pm
Peace Center

“The party Broadway’s been looking for!” –TheaterMania

She was a girl from Boston with a voice from heaven, who shot through the stars from gospel choir to dance floor diva. But what the world didn’t know was how Donna Summer risked it all to break through barriers, becoming the icon of an era and the inspiration for every music diva who followed.

With a score featuring more than 20 of Summer’s classic hits including “Love to Love You Baby,” “Bad Girls,” and “Hot Stuff,” this electric experience is a moving tribute to the voice of a generation.

Official Website

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Categories: Theatre
Avl and WNC Go Outside and Howl at 8 Support essential front-line workers
May 20 @ 8:00 pm – 8:15 pm
Online

“Go Outside and Howl at 8” is a national call for communities to recognize all essential front-line workers! Let’s join this call, Asheville! Show people in this community who are putting their lives at risk that we see them, and we love them! Let’s hear y’all howl at 8pm every night!!

Feel free to add pictures and/or videos to the Discussion in this event!

Much love, y’all!

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Categories: Community
Thursday, May 21, 2020
Blue Ridge Parkway Reopens
May 21 all-day
Blue Ridge Parkway

As coronavirus restrictions are loosened, sections of the Blue Ridge Parkway will reopen to drivers as soon as “seasonal mowing and road preparations” are complete, according to a release from parkway spokeswoman Leesa Brandon.

On May 9, the southernmost 14 miles of the Parkway, from Milepost 454-469, will reopen in coordination with the Qualla Boundary and Great Smoky Mountains National Park.

Gates to longer stretches of the Parkway will be opened May 15 — as long as maintenance projects in that area are completed:

  • Milepost 292-296.5 near Blowing Rock, including Moses Cone Parking Area and Hwy 221 Bass Lake Parking Lot.
  • Milepost 298.6-308 through Grandfather Mountain area, including Rough Ridge and Linn Cove Viaduct.
  • Milepost 316.4 Linville Falls Spur Road, including parking at Linville Falls trailheads.
  • Milepost 334-342 including Crabtree Falls Area, near Little Switzerland.
  • Milepost 355-375.6 from Mt. Mitchell to Ox Creek, including Craggy Gardens.
  • Milepost 377.4 Parking areas at Craven Gap (Town Mountain Rd) for MST Trail access.
  • Milepost 384.7 Roadside parking at MST Trailheads at US 74A Parkway access ramps.
  • Milepost 393-454 from French Broad River Overlook and south to Soco Gap.
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Categories: Outdoors Parks & Recreation
BMC@Home: Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor
May 21 all-day
online

BMC favorite Gil Shaham shares a special at-home performance of the first movement of the Bach Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, BWV 1043. Adele Anthony performs the violin 1 solo, Shaham performs the violin 2 solo, and colleagues Colin Jacobsen (violin, viola) and Eric Jacobsen (cello) supply the orchestral accompaniment.

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Categories: Music
Brevard Music Center Online: Keith’s Corner Summon the Heroes
May 21 all-day
Online

Keith’s Corner

Inspiring music and personal stories from our very own Keith Lockhart and special guests.

One of my great joys at Brevard is being able to share with you symphonic music that is special to me. Keith’s Corner will allow me, albeit virtually, to continue to do that. Join me here as I share stories with you about the music that I love…some of the music that made me fall in love with orchestras, some works that have produced memorable moments during my years at Brevard, and some of the music that touches me most profoundly. It will also be an opportunity to, on occasion, introduce you to a gem you may not have yet discovered. Join me for a completely personal, somewhat subjective and, I hope, entertaining listening experience! – Keith Lockhart

The Boston Pops Orchestra, under the direction of Keith Lockhart, performs a musical video tribute, Summon the Heroes–featuring the work originally composed by John Williams for the 1996 Olympic Games–as a tribute to today’s first responders who are providing critical and needed services during the Covid-19 epidemic. John Williams joins the virtual tribute with a musical and spoken introduction from his home studio in Los Angeles.

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Categories: Music
Digital BMC: Open Air Brevard Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major
May 21 all-day
online

Open Air Brevard

Enjoy featured re-broadcasts of Open Air Brevard, produced by 89.9 WDAV Classical Public Radio based in Charlotte, North Carolina. Additional broadcasts co-produced by BPR Classic in Asheville, North Carolina. Check back regularly for new episodes!

Also Sprach Zarathustra (opens in new tab)

Posted May 21, 2020; originally aired in the 2013 and 2016 seasons

Strauss: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor
Tone poem and the opening theme from 2001: A Space Odyssey.

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major

Jean-Louis Steuerman, piano
Brevard Music Center Orchestra
Matthias Bamert, conductor

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Categories: Music
Donate to Purple Heart Homes for Veterans
May 21 all-day
online

MAKE A DONATION

THERE ARE 4.0 MILLION DISABLED VETERANS IN AMERICA

They need assistance and with your help, we can provide it. Purple Heart Homes assists Service Connected Disabled Veterans to renovate their current home so they can live with dignity and the independence they deserve. Together we can Improve Veterans’ Lives One Home at a Time.

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Categories: Community
Greenville Library Online for Kids
May 21 all-day
Greenville Library Online

Learn with Kids at Home

With schools closed and many students learning from home, we have resources for homework help for all ages, including fun learning activities for caregivers with preschoolers:

  • BookFlix – Video storybooks paired with related nonfiction ebooks
  • BrainPop, Jr – Video and fun learning activities for students in grades K-3
  • Muzzy Online – Language learning for kids
  • TumbleBooks – Animated and talking story and chapter books
  • TumbleMath – Math picture books for students in grades K-6
    • Note: This resource has been made available temporarily through August 31, 2020.

All these and more can be found under the Kids & Teens menu at Kids Homework & Learning and Teens Homework & Learning. Our Kindergarten Readiness resources and Little Learners Club have hundreds of ideas for activities with young children. The State Library has also provided temporary access to Tutor.com, a great homework help resource including access to live tutoring for students in grades K-12.

You can also find beginning reader and picture books on OverDrive, as well as books for older children, by browsing by subject under Juvenile Fiction and Juvenile Nonfiction.

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Categories: Education Family Fun
Greenville Library Online Stay Entertained
May 21 all-day
Greenville Library Online

Read an ebook, a comic, or a magazine. Listen to music or an audiobook. Watch a TV show or a movie.

In addition to our existing platforms (OverDrive, RBdigital, Freegal, and Hoopla), the following resources have been made available through the end of August:

Freegal is now offering unlimited music streaming through the end of September (normally limited to 3 hours per day), and Hoopla has created a Bonus Borrows collection of items that won’t count against your monthly checkout limit.

If you need some ideas, here are a few lists of titles that can be found on one or more of our download/streaming platforms. More to come!

Learn a Skill or Find a New Hobby

Research Your Family Tree

Do you finally have extra time to devote to genealogy research? While we’re closed, you can access Ancestry from home with your library card (usually only available in library buildings). Other online genealogy resources include FamilySearch, Fold3, and HeritageQuest. Check under the Learning & Research menu for more!

Keep Up with the News

Stay informed with free access to the Greenville News, the New York Times Digital Edition, NewsBank, and US Southeast Newsstream.

Research Your Family Tree

Do you finally have extra time to devote to genealogy research? While we’re closed, you can access Ancestry from home with your library card (usually only available in library buildings). Other online genealogy resources include FamilySearch, Fold3, and HeritageQuest. Check under the Learning & Research menu for more!

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Original Broadway Cast Recordings
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Science Fiction
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Light-Hearted Romances
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Women in History (Nonfiction)
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Women in History (Fiction)

Learn a Skill or Find a New Hobby

Check out CreativeBug for all kinds of arts and crafts tutorials, learn how to code with fun projects in Vidcode, brush up on your language skills with Mango, or even learn how to service your car with Chilton Library. Browse the Hobbies & DIY Resources page for more ideas!

Keep Up with the News

Stay informed with free access to the Greenville News, the New York Times Digital Edition, NewsBank, and US Southeast Newsstream.

Research Your Family Tree

Do you finally have extra time to devote to genealogy research? While we’re closed, you can access Ancestry from home with your library card (usually only available in library buildings). Other online genealogy resources include FamilySearch, Fold3, and HeritageQuest. Check under the Learning & Research menu for more!

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Categories: Education
GreenWorks: Plant of the Month is Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus)
May 21 all-day
online

Plant of the Month

Our plant of the month is Sweetshrub (Calycanthus floridus), a beautiful, native shrub that can reach 6-9 feet in height. Sweetshrub is also known as Spicebush and Carolina Allspice, due to its fragrant leaves, twigs and flowers. This beautiful shrub is a good choice for planting along stream banks that are prone to erosion. The roots help keep soil in place and the characteristics of the plant make it well suited to most soil types, as well as partial shade to full sun. Sweetshrub is in bloom right now in our area, so keep your eyes out for these stunning, sweet smelling flowers!
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Categories: Garden
Helpful Resources: Parents Educating kids at home
May 21 all-day
online

How to Work from Home Efficiently with Kids
http://wfmdepot.com/how-to-work-from-home-efficiently-with-kids/

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Categories: Education Family Fun
Meal Train for Safe Harbor Shelter Clients (displaced to a hotel)
May 21 all-day
Safe Harbor
Safe Harbor Shelter Clients (displaced to a hotel)

About this Meal Train

Our shelters are set up as community living environments and are not structured for current social distancing and quarantining recommendations. Therefore, we have temporarily moved our shelter residents into hotel stays. We plan to use hotel stays for shelter residents through the month of May 2020. While our shelter residents are in hotel stays, we are continuing to provide 24/7 staff availability on-site of the hotel, mobile advocacy and case management, and access to all basic essential needs (food, toiletries, baby/children’s supplies, etc.). We need help with providing supper to the clients in the form of restaurant deliveries. If you would like to contribute by ordering a meal or donating toward the Meal Train fund, we would be so grateful. A meal for all shelter/hotel residents should cost about $200 a night. Thank you!

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Categories: Community Fundraisers
Moogmentum in Place: Fundraising live stream events, celebrating Bob Moog’s 86th birthday + one year anniversary of the Moogseum
May 21 all-day
online

Moogmentum in Place is an upcoming series of fundraising live stream events, from May 9th- May 31st, celebrating Bob Moog’s 86th birthday and the one year anniversary of the Moogseum.

Moogmentum In Place will feature performances, musical and technical insights, and question and answer sessions with a prodigious and varied group of legendary musicians, composers, and music technologists. All events will be streamed from the Foundation’s Facebook page where attendees from around the world will have the opportunity to donate in any amount.

Moogmentum In Place will feature film composers and synthesists Alex Wurman (May 9th) and Michael Whalen (May 17th), renowned keyboardist and musical director Greg Phillinganes (May 15th), former Earth, Wind & Fire keyboardist Larry Dunn interviewed by Jerry Kovarsky (May 21st), theremin virtuoso and music technologist Randy George (May 23rd), and electro-acoustic violist/composer Martha Mooke (May 28th). A virtual tour of the Moogseum and other events are also planned. Further information about each event will be released the week prior to it occurring.

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Categories: Fundraisers Music
RBC Heritage to be played without spectators
May 21 all-day
RBC Heritage
 PGA Tour announced that the RBC Heritage will be played June 15-21, 2020, at the Harbour Town Golf Links in Sea Pines without spectators.
Sea Pines CSA is sharing the news release below with the community and will continue to keep you updated on how CSA will handle our operations related to the Heritage as plans are finalized.
For more information on the 52nd annual RBC Heritage Presented by Boeing tournament, visit rbcheritage.com or call 843-671-2448.
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Categories: Sports
Safe Harbor’s Housing Assistance Program: Survivors of Domestic Violence
May 21 all-day
Safe Harbor

Safe Harbor’s Housing Assistance Program is available to survivors of domestic violence needing assistance with housing support who are currently engaged in Safe Harbor’s shelter and/or community-based programs.

Safe Harbor’s Housing Assistance Program provides secure and stable housing to survivors and their children by providing a percentage of rental and utility assistance for an average of 12 months.

Housing Assistance

Safe Harbor provides case management (with an emphasis on financial stability) and goal-setting for clients throughout their time in the program, offering clients the opportunity to achieve goals toward stable housing and financial empowerment.

When this program has openings, clients who are currently participating in our shelter and/or community-based programs are made aware of this opportunity and steps they can take to become eligible.

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Categories: Community Health & Wellness
St. Louis Symphony 2020 BMC Instrument Playground Online
May 21 all-day
online
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Categories: Family Fun Music
The Blood Connection FREE COVID-19 Antibody Testing for Blood Donors
May 21 all-day
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The Blood Connection will now be offering FREE COVID-19 Antibody Testing. The COVID-19 Antibody Test will test a sample of each donor’s blood to see if it contains COVID-19 antibodies. This will be offered to TBC blood donors at all blood donation centers and mobiles across South Carolina, North Carolina, and Georgia, at no cost. Donors are encouraged to make an appointment first, to maintain adequate social distancing.
Some important things to note:

· This is NOT a test to determine if the donor is infected with COVID-19. Positive test results do not confirm COVID-19 infection or immunity. A positive antibody result is indicative of the body’s immune response to COVID-19.

· This test is only available to those who complete a whole blood, platelet, or plasma donation where samples are successfully collected.

· The results of a COVID-19 Antibody Test will be posted on the donor’s TBC online portal in seven business days of their donation.

· More information about this testing: https://thebloodconnection.org/antibody-testing/

· Appointments can be made at thebloodconnection.org, click DONATE NOW.

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Categories: Community Health & Wellness
United Way COVID-19 Impact Resources
May 21 all-day
United Way Association of South Carolina online

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United Way Association of South Carolina.
Get Connected. Get Answers. COVID-19 Impact Survey
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Categories: Community Health & Wellness
Urge Support for H1068 and Arts Funding During COVID-19
May 21 all-day
online

New NC Arts Funding Bill Needs Support
Joint Caucus on Arts and Arts Education Co-Chairs Rep. Becky Carney and Rep. Jeffrey Elmore are joined by Rep. Michele Presnell and Rep. Susan Fisher as primary sponsors of H1068, the new legislation that would allocate $3 million to arts organizations negatively impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic through the NC Arts Council.
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Categories: Art & Craft Community
Veterans Crisis Line
May 21 all-day
online

Veterans Crisis Line and Additional Information

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Veterans Crisis Line
If you are a veteran or concerned about a veteran, the Veterans Crisis Line is a free, confidential resource available to anyone, even if you’re not registered with VA or enrolled in VA health care. Call the Veterans Crisis Line 1-800-273-8255 and Press 1.

https://portal.ct.gov/DVA/Pages/Mental-Health-Resources-for-Veterans-and-their-Employees/Veterans-Crisis-Line-and-Additional-Information

 

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Categories: Community